For a New Health Partnership with Africa
The European Union has given too little attention to the issue of health as a component of its rapprochement with Africa – thus leaving “vaccine diplomacy” to authoritarian states. That could usefully change. In the short term, that would mean giving a fixed share of its COVID-19 vaccines to Africa and helping build up vaccine production there. In the long term, improving health systems should really become an integral part of European economic and development policy in Africa.
